Oh no, a government that’s out of touch with its people. How could such a thing be?

I’m not quite sure how were the skelves “forced” to break their isolation. I remember them considering pros and cons of getting involved but technically they could’ve stayed out of the war if they really wanted to.

I believe it was something along the lines of “help the gastonians or face a break in relations plus whatever savage races come for your heads”. Remember waaay back when the peacekeepers threatened to fuck them up? Also, I bet those snobbish governmental leaders couldn’t wait to show off the “superiority” of the sky elves.

I guess ‘forced’ in the sense that the diplomats sent to them (Frigg, Bandit, and Syr’Nj) all-but threatened violence if the sky elves didn’t ally themselves with Gastonia (and that violence could have come from either the World’s Rebellion or the Gastonians).

Or in this scenario they might feel threatened because a few of their mages deciding to teleport an army there (already inconvenient) opened the door for temporary military occupation of their hometown. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if troops were left there to ensure continued cooperation (it’s the kind of thing history has seen before on our earth).

Yeah, only recall her right foot getting burnt, and seeing how her leather boots were still on when she was crawling for revenge… severely blistered probably, but hardly ‘burnt down to the bone’ (which was just an assumption, or bluff, on Maggies part)

Neither do I, however, I know that, in theory, dousing your hand in water is enough to give you a brief moment of molten-lead-proofing. So, maybe, MAYBE the kentucky-fried skin and boiled skin gravy (and their inherent boiling point) would be just enough to protect the bone and some muscle tissue in a convenction-schmonvenction universe. (In real life, anything abouve 800ºC/3500 or something in imperial Farthings would be just enough to burn you like a fuse. Anakin had it easy)

Ug. I get that they’ve been isolated for years and that the Peacekeeper’s have ended that, and it is something that might be celebrated in time…

But honestly, who the hell would be EXCITED and lavish praises upon the people who dragged them into a war were their friends, family, and kinsmen will die to serve primarily foriegn interests?? Apparently these two have no relatives in the military…

Which is a fairly realistic depiction of humans in a fantasay world, if you ask me. I mean, we managed to oppress each other for thousands of years – how do you think we’d treat other “intelligent” species?

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